Condi Registrar: "No one could have predicted" LA County 'Bubble Trouble' & Bowen to the Rescue!

[BradBlog]

L.A. County's Super Tuesday "Double Bubble" Trouble Coverage Continues...



Bowen to the Rescue: CA's SoS Calls on L.A. County Registrar to Count Thousands of Still-Uncounted Super Tuesday Ballots
Asks for 'Precinct-by-Precinct Reconciliation' of Poll Rosters to Begin Accurately Accounting for Tens of Thousands of Non-Partisan Voters Who Cast Machine-Unreadable

California Sec. of State Debra Bowen wants Los Angeles County's acting Registrar of Voters, Dean Logan, to check the poll rosters of thousands of precincts in order to help accurately count tens of thousands of currently uncounted ballots cast in the Super Tuesday Democratic Primary.

As The BRAD BLOG pointed out last week, tens of thousands of currently uncounted ballots cast by Non-Partisan voters who chose to cross-over and vote in the Democratic Primary, but who failed to ink in a second bubble meant to instruct voting machines to count the ballot as a Democratic vote, can be counted accurately, as per the voter's intent, if Logan bothers to check those poll rosters....

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5709

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Former L.A. County Registrar Blames Everyone But Herself for 'Double Bubble' Failure Which Went 'Unheeded' for Six Years
'No One Could Have Predicted This,' Conny McCormack Tells LA Times in Her Best Condoleese, About Her Ballot Design That Disenfranchsed 40% of Voters in At Least Two Previous Elections...

L.A. County's former Registrar Recorder, Conny McCormack, who quit just prior to February's Super Tuesday Primary Election, turned into Condi Rice today.

She's quoted in an Los Angeles Times' front page story confirming, as we pointed out over the weekend, that Election Officials did nothing about the "Double Bubble" ballot problem --- which may well disenfranchise a conservatively estimated 50,000 county voters --- despite massive disenfranchisement with the same design over last six years, since McCormack first implemented it.

In her best Condoleese, McCormack is quoted by the paper today saying, "This is an unfortunate, unanticipated result...No one could have predicted this."

Sound familiar?

She is shortly contradicted, in the same article, by a spokesperson from her own former office, before she continues on to blame voters and poll workers for the problem that she created --- as now confirmed by both the LA Times and California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen --- before then proceeding to do absolutely nothing about it...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5707

[byronius]

1. DEBRA BOWEN ROCKS!

I am a huge fan. Can you tell?

[nikto]

2. Regarding CONNY McCORMACK, this explains EVERYTHING...

She is a crook, a liar, and a cheat.
She doesn't belong in power----She belongs in JAIL.


Conny McCormack:
McCormack had been in charge of jury selection in Dallas County (TX), where she became head of elections. Shortly after taking office, Drake-McCormack was hit with violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 over an incident related to installation of voting machines. She subsequently came under investigation by the Texas Attorney General on allegations that she had manipulated an election by shorting ballots in African-American districts.

While still under investigation, McCormack went to San Diego County, CA. She took over from San Diego's Ortiz, who had been indicted. McCormack turned over the reins in San Diego County and took over in Los Angeles County.

Conny McCormack appears to be related to Scott Konopasek through marriage (her sister-in-law is a Konopasek.) Black Box Voting has an unconfirmed report from local citizens that Konopasek's new consulting firm participated in a vendor meeting with McCormack regarding a telephone voting system.


FROM:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/32750.html

[nikto]

3. kick

kick

[Major Hogwash]

4. Double Bubble Trouble - this wasn't on the news. Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him?

I guess they just gave her the state then, huh?

What a nice present. No wonder she thought this was going to be over by February 5th.

[Time for change]

5. It's great to see the SOS for our largest state actually being interested in counting all the votes

Hopefully this will set a good example for the rest of the nation.

[mojowork_n]

6. It's a different state, different set of circumstances, but something similar

seems to be happening in the state of Washington, too.

I was wondering why returns from yesterday's primary were coming in so slowly (the morning after the primary, they're only showing 57% of the total, Barack continuing to lead 50 to 47) and I googled this up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/us/politics/18washington.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

Excerpt:

“This is a $10 million taxpayer-funded meaningless beauty contest by Republican secretary of state, Sam Reed, that will pick a handful of Republican delegates at a price of about $526,000 per delegate,” Mr. Steele said.

Washington is the only state that uses caucuses and primaries to nominate delegates. Accompanying the blame and questionable relevance, there is confusion.

People here do not register to vote by party affiliation, but this year voters in the primary must check a box declaring a preferred party and sign an oath promising that they did not vote in a caucus for another party. There is no mechanism to ensure that people do so — just trust. But if a voter does not select a party and sign the oath, their vote will not be counted in the presidential primary. The changes have not gone over well.

The caucases on Feb. 9 gave Barack a win, by 36 points.